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Last night, after my previous blog post, everyone in attendance at the SkySQL developer meeting in Barcelona gathered for dinner at El Cangrejo Loco, which, if my High School Spanish is working, translates as The Crazy Crab. After the excellent food, the tradition of singing at MySQL/MariaDB developer meetings was preserved.

Today the MariaDB developers in attendance at the SkySQL developer meeting in Barcelona got together to work on plans for MariaDB 10.1. We also paused for a group photo:

Many tasks have been identified for possible inclusion in 10.1. Some have already been marked as such in JIRA. A summary is available for those that are interested. More will be added as the plans for 10.1 firm up, so check back.

So now we need to find out which tasks are the most important to you. Please visit JIRA and vote for your favorites! The developers do pay attention to which tasks have more votes, so this is a good way to influence MariaDB 10.1.

To vote, visit this page, browse through the list and click on the items you want to see in 10.1, and then click on the “vote for this issue” link in the right-hand column.

Several MariaDB developers are attending SkySQL’s annual engineering meeting being held this week in Barcelona. While some of the discussions are SkySQL-specific (customers, internal projects, and so on), there are, naturally, lots of MariaDB discussions happening.

Patrik Sallner, CEO of SkySQL, opened the meeting this morning with a short presentation about SkySQL’s goals for 2014. While the plan includes standard business-like things that include growing the company and sales goals, the top two goals for 2014 are:

Help make MariaDB into the leading open source database

Help increase awareness and adoption of MariaDB

Looking back at 2013, it was an excellent year for MariaDB. It is now the default database in Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia, and others and it is included in the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 preview. During the last days of 2013 MariaDB was also made part of Debian.

During the daily summary, we talked about the 10.0 release plan, focusing on 10.0.8, planning the Release Candidates (RCs) and we now even have a pretty good idea when 10.0 will go GA (you can see this in JIRA).

For the upcoming 10.0.8 release there are 40 bugs being worked on. The planned release date is 31 January 2014, and this will be the first RC. The 10.0.9 release, planned for the end of February, would also be another RC release. The MariaDB 10.0.10 release (planned release date: end of March) is planned to be the first 10.0 GA release.

Lastly, a widely discussed topic among the MariaDB developers today was the performance of MariaDB 10.0, where there already exist a few new patches and quite a few further ideas for improvments. More about this in a separate blog post later.

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.7. This is a Beta release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 10.0? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 10.0 series.